Firefox Secrets: A Need-To-Know Guide

by Cheah Chu Yeow

This is a must read guide to anyone who wants to learn how to browse faster and more conveniently with Firefox. Firefox Secrets will teach you how to get the most from Mozilla, including how to find and use all the hidden features, extensions available to you. You'll learn:

- Ways to ease the transition from Internet Explorer
- A way to setup multiple "homepages" when you launch your browser
- Read RSS feeds from within Firefox using a free extension
- Where to download a new and less obtrusive "Download Manager"
- The best "must-have" extensions to download as well as the "fun" ones
- Two different ways to speed up Firefox downloads with prefetcher and pipelining
- Firefox's secret features for Web Developers
- And much, much more!

Firefox Secrets is the ultimate guide to the Web Browser that major magazines, newspapers and even Microsoft's own "Slate.com" website are recommending as the ultimate replacement to Internet Explorer.

About the Author

Chu Yeow is a software developer by day, a blogger by night, and a sometime freelance Web developer. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He keeps a well-read Mozilla-related blog titled redemption in a blog, where he posts the latest Mozilla-related news and Firefox tips, and reviews worthy extensions and random technical tidbits.

Chu Yeow has written several articles for SitePoint, in particular contributing Firefox tips for its community newsletter, the Community Crier. He is also a SitePoint Forums moderator and holds the appointment of Programming Team Advisor.

When he isn't working, this self-professed geek enjoys tinkering with his hosted Gentoo Linux box, anime, World of Warcraft (just one more level!), and good fantasy books.

292 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 15, 2005

Reviews

[Javier Segura · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was by far the best book for Firefox users!